Documentary at 1:45 p.m. EST on Sundance

[PADemD]

"Language Does Not Lie"
A diary chronicles the Nazi subversion of language as a means of thought control.

[Eurobabe]

1. And my f'ing cable is down right now

can't record anything because of Comcast's inability to get enough juice to power our VoIP phone and the TiVO/SlingBox. :grr:

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

2. I'll be recording it. But, I recommend that everyone read Klemperer's diaries.

If you'd really like to know what living under fascism is like, read his two volume "I Will Bear Witness". Victor Klemperer, the author of the "Language of the Third Reich", also kept daily diaries from the accession of Hitler to the end of the war.

He was a German-Jew, WWI vet, Professor of French Literature, married to an "Aryan". He escaped the death camps because of his wife. His diaries pull no punches, they are the day to day life of a man who is a "secular" Jew, intellectual, who often reveals himself unsparingly as he steals food from friends, lies, and is downright cowardly. He could be described as a "moderate" politically, who didn't believe that Hitler would do what he said he would do, believed that the Nazis were a flash in the pan, scorned the left, and dilly-dallied about leaving Germany until it was too late. In other words, he was completely human. And, he was completely honest in his diaries about his humanity.

In his diaries, there are no death camps, no piles of bodies, no crematoriums. But, his account of life in Germany during the Nazi years is the most chilling thing I have ever read about it.